Does history always repeat itself?

History always repeats itself...no question about it...its just a question of WHEN.

Someone mentioned how America is coming closer to becoming the country with the next Holocaust. Some try to compare Obama to Hitler...but he is nowhere close. Its the conservatives, its the Glenn Becks and the Rush Limbaughs of the world one should be fearing.

If you look at 1930s and 1940s Germany, propaganda swept people into hating Jewish and anything that wasn't Aryan.

The world was suffering economically, and the powers of Germany was able to feed on the fears of everyone.

In America, it was irrational fears that helped catapult the country into an even further economic turmoil, when everyone rushed to the banks to withdraw their money.

When Birth of a Nation came out in 1915, it revived the Klan, because it fed on peoples fears.

All these examples show how fear causes one to become more irrational. Many say that another holocaust is impossible. Is it because the Civil War was the only major war America had on its soil, that they believe America could never be the next Germany? Is it because people believe we have improved socially?

All it takes is propaganda, and using the right words to put fear into people. You then take advantage of that fear and convince people to join your side. It is from there, things like the Holocaust can happen.

Russia is on the verge of a Holocaust. Ironic considering they fought against them in WWII...and now the amount of Neo Nazis there are ever growing. You know disaster is only a few miles away when something that goes by a name (or similar name) such as National Party gets voted into some form of political power. It recently happened in the UK, the BNP now have a seat in Parliament.

Many people want to shrug off these hate groups and assume they are all just a bunch of delusional people. When Obama got elected, Stormfront had a major increase in its membership. The problem is, we assume we have progressed enough that we have no threat from these groups.

And that is our fatal flaw. We assume they will be no harm. So no action is taken. Because of inaction, their numbers grow, and its only a matter of time before America is the next Germany.

No matter how much a country can progress socially in its beliefs, a country can always revert, and often times does, to its former self, out of fear. We shouldn't be afraid of what damage Obama can do. Be afraid of what people like Limbaugh, Beck, and Coulter can do to America since they have more ability to spread propaganda and to feed on the fears of the American people.

The next holocaust will be worse, chances are it will be more worldwide. Its not a question of if another one can happen, but a question of when.

History always repeats itself. People say that we should just learn the mistakes of those from the past. But some mistakes can't be learned. Sometimes its not a matter of learning what they did wrong and not repeating it, its a matter of everything in the situation converging with eachother and creating a mess. Different factors, but same results. Lets face it, humanity is cocky, we blame everything on our human nature, and prefer not to tame it.